blakestyger

Ewe might be amazed to hear that the largest biomass on Earth is made up of viral material; that you're very own genome is mostly bits of old retroviral sequence that doesn't do anything - I mean that in the nicest possible way, of course.

I don't know where viruses come from but it's safe to say they are ancient life forms. If you have an interest in viruses you may like to see this:

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